We're in full tax return-finishing mode here, wondering if Spring will ever actually come and working out a lighting setup for a portrait series later this week that will include photographing, among many others, the greatest war photographer of the past thirty years. Suffice to say, it's been a busy and somewhat hectic week.

The postman delivered the results of a busy week in December, when I shot six portraits over a three day period, running around town with the full lighting kit and trying to get as much out of my five minute allotments as possible. Poder's Black Book is sort of a who's-who of prominent Hispanic leaders around the country. My shoots included recent Obama Administration appointees, the Mexican Ambassador to the US and the President of the IDB. The subjects were uniformly gracious and open to carrying out various concepts of being "in motion", the theme for the entire book.

Arturo Valenzuela, Director of Center of Latin American Studies at Georgetown


Cecila Muñoz Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for The White House


Arturo Sarukhan Casamitjana, Mexican Ambassador to the US


Dan Restrepo, Senior Policy Advisor to President Obama


Janet Murguia, President of La Raza


Luis Alberto Moreno, President of the Inter-American Development Bank